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Chang'e 5
 Chang'e 5 probe separating from the launcher (artist's impression) | |
| Mission type | Lunar sample return |
|---|---|
| Operator | CNSA |
| COSPAR ID | 2020-087A |
| SATCAT no. | 47097 |
| Mission duration | Elapsed: 4 years, 1 month, 2 days |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Manufacturer | CAST |
| Launch mass | 8,200 kg[1] |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | 23 November 2020 20:30:12 UTC[1] 24 November 2020 04:30 CST[2] |
| Rocket | Long March 5 |
| Launch site | Wenchang |
| Contractor | CALT |
| End of mission | |
| Landing date | 16 December 2020 17:59 UTC[1] Return capsule |
| Landing site | Inner Mongolia, China |
| Lunar orbiter | |
| Orbital insertion | 28 November 2020 12:58 UTC[3] |
| Orbital parameters | |
| Periapsis altitude | 200 km (120 mi)[3] |
| Lunar lander | |
| Landing date | 1 December 2020 15:11 UTC[4] |
| Return launch | 3 December 2020 15:10 UTC |
| Landing site | Mons Rümker, region of Oceanus Procellarum 43°03′27″N 51°54′58″W / 43.0576°N 51.9161°W[5][6] |
| Sample mass | 1,731 g (61.1 oz)[7] |
| Docking with Sample Ascender | |
| Docking date | 5 December 2020, 21:42:00 UTC[8] |
| Undocking date | 7 December 2020, 04:35:00 UTC[9] |
| Flyby of Moon | |
| Spacecraft component | orbiter |
| Closest approach | ~9 September 2021[10] |
Chang'e probes | |
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| Simplified Chinese | 嫦娥五号 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 嫦娥五號 | ||||||
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Chang'e 5 (Chinese: 嫦娥五号; pinyin: Cháng'é wǔhào[note 1]) was the fifth lunar exploration mission in the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program of CNSA, and China's first lunar sample-return mission.[13] Like its predecessors, the spacecraft is named after the Chinese moon goddess, Chang'e. It launched at 20:30 UTC on 23 November 2020, from Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on Hainan Island, landed on the Moon on 1 December 2020, collected ~1,731 g (61.1 oz) of lunar samples (including from a core ~1 m deep),[14][15] and returned to the Earth at 17:59 UTC on 16 December 2020.
Chang'e 5 was the first lunar sample-return mission since the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976. New lunar minerals, including Changesite-(Y) and two different structures of the titanium compound Ti2O, were identified from the samples returned from the mission, making China the third country to discover a new lunar mineral.[16][17] The mission also made China the third country to return samples from the Moon after the United States and the Soviet Union.
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- ^ Lemei, Yang (2006). "China's Mid-Autumn Day". Journal of Folklore Research. 43 (3). Indiana University Press: 263–270. doi:10.2979/JFR.2006.43.3.263. S2CID 161494297. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
China's Mid-Autumn Day, a traditional occasion to celebrate family unity and harmony, is related to two Chinese tales. The first is the myth of Cháng'é, who flew to the moon, where she has dwelt ever since.
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- ^ Liu, Jianjun; Zeng, Xingguo; Li, Chunlai; Ren, Xin; Yan, Wei; Tan, Xu; Zhang, Xiaoxia; Chen, Wangli; Zuo, Wei; Liu, Yuxuan; Liu, Bin (February 2021). "Landing Site Selection and Overview of China's Lunar Landing Missions". Space Science Reviews. 217 (1): 6. Bibcode:2021SSRv..217....6L. doi:10.1007/s11214-020-00781-9. ISSN 0038-6308. S2CID 234037992.
- ^ CNSA. "China's Chang'e-5 retrieves 1,731 kilograms of moon samples". Archived from the original on 4 January 2021. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
- ^ Jones, Andrew (23 December 2020). "China says it's open to sharing moon rocks as Chang'e 5 samples head to the lab". space.com. Archived from the original on 30 August 2022. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
- ^ Andrew Jones (12 September 2022). "China discovers new moon mineral in lunar samples". Space.com. Retrieved 27 June 2024.
- ^ "Chinese scientists may be a step closer to unravelling mystery of lunar surface". South China Morning Post. 7 April 2024. Retrieved 27 June 2024.
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